As of today (2024-05-21), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Bega Cheese is 1.62%.
Warning Sign:
Bega Cheese Ltd stock dividend yield is close to 5-year low.
The historical rank and industry rank for Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:
ASX:BGA'
s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.07 Med: 1.82 Max: 3.97
Current: 1.62
During the past 12 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Bega Cheese was 3.97%. The lowest was 1.07%. And the median was 1.82%.
ASX:BGA's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 64.31% of 1101
companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.29
vs ASX:BGA: 1.62
If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Bega Cheese Ltd is 1.754, which seems too high.
During the past 12 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Bega Cheese was 1.75. The lowest was 0.11. And the median was 0.85.
During the past 12 months, Bega Cheese's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -31.80% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -1.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -0.80% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 3.60% per year.
During the past 12 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Bega Cheese was 40.90% per year. The lowest was -1.30% per year. And the median was 6.70% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Bega Cheese Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield %
For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Bega Cheese's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Bega Cheese Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Bega Cheese Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
AUD 0.040000
2024-02-27
2024-02-28
2024-04-04
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
AUD:AUD 1.000000
AUD 0.030000
2023-08-29
2023-08-30
2023-09-21
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
AUD:AUD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
Bega Cheese's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.07
/
4.36
=
1.61 %
Current Share Price is A$4.36. Bega Cheese's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is A$0.07.
Bega Cheese's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.08
/
4.36
=
1.83 %
Current Share Price is A$4.36. Bega Cheese's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as A$0.04 * 2 = A$0.08.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Bega Group is an Australia-based dairy processor and food manufacturer of well-known brands including Bega Cheese and Vegemite. Bega operates two segments: the branded segment which produces consumer packaged goods primarily sold through the supermarket and foodservice channels and the bulk segment which produces commodity dairy ingredients primarily sold through the business-to-business channel.
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